Description
Position Summary:
The Distribution and Dispatch Supervisor will coordinate transportation to meet customer needs, collaborating across departments to optimize logistics processes.
Key Highlights:
1. Supervise the efficient operation of distribution and dispatch transportation.
2. Collaborate with the CEDI, dispatchers, and sales teams to optimize logistics.
3. Maintain the CEDI vehicle fleet and ensure transportation routes.
Cargill is a family-owned company committed to providing safe, responsible, and sustainable food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world. At the heart of the supply chain, we partner with producers and customers to source, manufacture, and deliver essential life-sustaining products. By providing customers with essentials for life, we help businesses grow, communities thrive, and consumers live well.
This position is part of our Food division, where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, quick-service restaurants, and retailers with a full range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, eggs, alternative proteins, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa, and chocolate.
**Purpose and Impact of the Role**
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The Distribution and Dispatch Supervisor will oversee the efficient operation of distribution transportation, including timely coordination and dispatch to meet customer needs and contractual obligations aligned with Transportation Service objectives. In this role, the supervisor will collaborate with the CEDI, dispatchers, sales department, and other departments, proactively developing effective logistics procedures and cost-reduction solutions, and collecting and analyzing industry data to identify trends.
**Key Responsibilities**
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* Provide support and input to ensure proper execution of the sales distribution plan.
* Coordinate budgets and maintain transportation safety, security, and control programs.
* Maintain the CEDI vehicle fleet in available and transport-ready condition.
* Ensure appropriate transportation schedules, methods, and routes; analyze and forecast transportation costs.
* Evaluate, select, and build effective relationships with external transportation providers and manage acquired fleet vehicles.
* Responsible for personnel decisions related to hiring, performance, and disciplinary actions for direct reports. Also spends time performing the same tasks as team members.
* Other assigned duties.
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**Qualifications**
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**Minimum:**
* Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, or related field.
* Minimum of two years of work experience in dispatch and transportation.
* Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite.
* Experience in vehicle fleet administration.
* Intermediate-to-advanced Excel skills
**Preferred:**
* Two years of experience in supervision or people management
* SAP system proficiency
* Power BI proficiency
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